Be just before you are generous.
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.